Rare Jamman54 Posted January 27 Author #876 Share Posted January 27 51 minutes ago, nybumpkin said: I can't agree more with you about NYC, Jeff! I think we're up to about 20 NYC sailaways - mostly Carnival, with some Cunard and Norwegian in the mix. I never get tired of it. I loved the Tribe live reviews - really want to see yours! Hey Kathy! We've sailed out of NYC more than any other port, with two more on the Venezia in September. It never gets old! 😎 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pghsteelerfan Posted January 28 #877 Share Posted January 28 So happy I found your review! I've just started. I haven't been on CC since right after the Covid shutdown and have been doing a lot of walking in our neighborhood (it's pretty large) and doing 5K's which keep me motivated to keep walking. I don't want to sit and rust, as a good friend's mom puts it. LOL!!! We finally cruised again this past October on Panorama, the 8 day out of Long Beach. I was on CC twice a few months prior, briefly, looking in the Ports of Call section for things to do in La Paz (not much info). I just happened to get on here again the other day seeing if anyone knew if ship ornaments for Panorama actually exist. I wasn't able to get one on our cruise, they didn't have any. Checking Ebay practically ever day since our cruise, I've never seen one for Panorama (or Vista & Horizon, all Vista Class ships). While doing the search, I saw Mitsugirly's post asking about the Panorama/same itinerary we just did & saw Deladane has a review of Panorama, same itinerary. Just browsing through, I found yours! So glad, I always enjoyed your reviews and looked forward to them and really looking forward to this one (just started). We haven't been on a cruise since our last Liberty cruise out of San Juan in 2015! We have been on other vacations, just not cruises. We had two that were canceled due to Covid but have been on other vacations, so we haven't been deprived. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pghsteelerfan Posted January 28 #878 Share Posted January 28 On 10/18/2023 at 1:46 PM, Crusin Karen said: Oh!!!! Haven’t been on CC in a few days. Was just wondering if you were still on Venezia and I found your review. I am SO EXCITED for this! 👍👏🤗👍👏🤗 Great you booked another cruise on her; I’ll be on January 8 day, March 11 day and May 11 day. Wish at least ONE of them was same cruise as yours! 😥 YEA for you and Patti! 😎 Hi Karen! It's been a while - so happy to see you here too! We haven't cruised since our 2015 Liberty cruise out of San Juan (land vacations instead & the Covid shutdown). I haven't been on CC since shortly after the 2020 shutdown. Been keeping myself active and spending a lot less time on the computer but looks like I'm getting addicted to CC again. So happy to find Jamman54's review and so happy to see you and a few others I feel I know too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusin Karen Posted January 28 #879 Share Posted January 28 Hi Holly! Good to see you posting again! 👏👍I’m still loving the Liberty! I had just been thinking of your Google earth pictures! Last cruise pre Covid was magic. Loved her so booked for last June but was switched to Venezia. Just cruised her for 2nd time 1/6-1/14 and I’m booked on 3 more. Not in a position to cruise from anywhere except home port now so Venezia will be my home away from home! I am looking into NCL escape winter ‘25 so we’ll see! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Jamman54 Posted January 28 Author #880 Share Posted January 28 5 hours ago, pghsteelerfan said: So happy I found your review! I've just started. I haven't been on CC since right after the Covid shutdown and have been doing a lot of walking in our neighborhood (it's pretty large) and doing 5K's which keep me motivated to keep walking. I don't want to sit and rust, as a good friend's mom puts it. LOL!!! We finally cruised again this past October on Panorama, the 8 day out of Long Beach. I was on CC twice a few months prior, briefly, looking in the Ports of Call section for things to do in La Paz (not much info). I just happened to get on here again the other day seeing if anyone knew if ship ornaments for Panorama actually exist. I wasn't able to get one on our cruise, they didn't have any. Checking Ebay practically ever day since our cruise, I've never seen one for Panorama (or Vista & Horizon, all Vista Class ships). While doing the search, I saw Mitsugirly's post asking about the Panorama/same itinerary we just did & saw Deladane has a review of Panorama, same itinerary. Just browsing through, I found yours! So glad, I always enjoyed your reviews and looked forward to them and really looking forward to this one (just started). We haven't been on a cruise since our last Liberty cruise out of San Juan in 2015! We have been on other vacations, just not cruises. We had two that were canceled due to Covid but have been on other vacations, so we haven't been deprived. Hey Holly! So great to see you posting here again. We've missed you! We've cruised quite a bit post Covid, so you have quite a bit to catch up on. We just got back from the Celebration so another review will be going up shortly. Good to see you're dipping your toes back into cruising. Do you have any more planned? 😃 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare IntrepidFromDC Posted January 28 #881 Share Posted January 28 On 1/26/2024 at 4:04 AM, Jamman54 said: Thanks for reading! Everyone should cruise from New York at least once, though some may beg to differ. The sail away from there is second to none! The Tribe cruise review will be going up next week. Stay tuned! 20 hours ago, nybumpkin said: I can't agree more with you about NYC, Jeff! I think we're up to about 20 NYC sailaways - mostly Carnival, with some Cunard and Norwegian in the mix. I never get tired of it. I loved the Tribe live reviews - really want to see yours! Here's a third vote for sailing from Manhattan... along with NOLA and Venice, Italy it's one of my favorite sail-away's. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pghsteelerfan Posted January 28 #882 Share Posted January 28 11 hours ago, Jamman54 said: Hey Holly! So great to see you posting here again. We've missed you! We've cruised quite a bit post Covid, so you have quite a bit to catch up on. We just got back from the Celebration so another review will be going up shortly. Good to see you're dipping your toes back into cruising. Do you have any more planned? 😃 I've missed everyone here too! I was thrilled the other day when I hopped on and saw a lot of familiar names. This was our first cruise since Covid. We were booked on Magic in May 2020 (out of Miami to HMC, GT, Aruba, & Curacao), which obviously was canceled. We also had the Fascination booked out of San Juan for Oct/Nov. 2021 which was also canceled, not directly due to Covid but because Fascination was sold. We took the full refund for Magic and got vouchers for the airfare which we needed to use by end of 2022, but that summer United extended that to the end of 2023. Shortly after the Fascination cruise was canceled, I found the Panorama 8-day that included La Paz and booked that in May 2021. We currently have no cruises booked but our normal habit is booking cruises 3 months (or less) from the sail date. We want to go on one that goes down to Arbua/Curacao but now I'd really love to to the Panorama again. They will be offering more 8-days cruises that include La Paz regularly in 2025. We didn't get to Puerto Vallarta but did end up with an extra half day in Cabo due to a hurricane. Just wish Carnival would put another ship down in San Juan to do that itinerary again at some point - that was our favorite. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pghsteelerfan Posted January 28 #883 Share Posted January 28 On 10/20/2023 at 12:12 PM, Jamman54 said: The early bird gets the people-less pictures! 😁 Exactly!!! 🙂 Tried to "like" the post but that doesn't seem to be working at the moment. Really enjoying your review and Patti's pictures! I'll be entertained for a while. 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pghsteelerfan Posted January 28 #884 Share Posted January 28 17 hours ago, Crusin Karen said: Hi Holly! Good to see you posting again! 👏👍I’m still loving the Liberty! I had just been thinking of your Google earth pictures! Last cruise pre Covid was magic. Loved her so booked for last June but was switched to Venezia. Just cruised her for 2nd time 1/6-1/14 and I’m booked on 3 more. Not in a position to cruise from anywhere except home port now so Venezia will be my home away from home! I am looking into NCL escape winter ‘25 so we’ll see! It's definitely been a while! We were on Panorama out of Long Beach, CA, this past October for 8-day Mexican Riviera with the bonus stop in La Paz. Loved it but didn't do a review. We had two cruises booked that ended up cancelled. May 2020 on Magic and Oct/Nov. 2021 on Fascination out of San Juan. Booked Panorama in May 2021, shortly after the Fascination cruise was canceled, and it was here before we knew it and I had nothing planned! LOL!!! We loved it and loved Panorama, although larger ship with 2x as many passengers as we're used to but the layout of Panorama was done really well so it never felt crowded. And now seeing Jamman54's review of Venezia, it is definitely the same layout with a few differences in style mainly and the closed in Lido pool. Is your email still the same one you had when we were last corresponding? If not, mine is dgieh at comcast dot net. 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crusin Karen Posted January 28 #885 Share Posted January 28 13 hours ago, Jamman54 said: Hey Holly! So great to see you posting here again. We've missed you! We've cruised quite a bit post Covid, so you have quite a bit to catch up on. We just got back from the Celebration so another review will be going up shortly. Good to see you're dipping your toes back into cruising. Do you have any more planned? 😃 Jamman, I’ve been checking for your review and Patti’s pictures. But I must warn you: if you had started it on playoff Sunday I would have driven to somerset and smacked you! 😠😊🏈🍻 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Jamman54 Posted January 29 Author #886 Share Posted January 29 (edited) 1 hour ago, Crusin Karen said: Jamman, I’ve been checking for your review and Patti’s pictures. But I must warn you: if you had started it on playoff Sunday I would have driven to somerset and smacked you! 😠😊🏈🍻 I did do some background work before leaving to drink beer and watch the first game with friends. Shooting for Wednesday. 😃 Edited January 29 by Jamman54 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sp2 Posted January 29 #887 Share Posted January 29 1 hour ago, Jamman54 said: I did do some background work before leaving to drink beer and watch the first game with friends. Shooting for Wednesday. 😃 Yay! I’ve been waiting for this one. Kinda feeling a bit stalkerish. This review should be epic! Can’t wait to virtually cruise with you and Patti again! Sharon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverpoollovely Posted January 30 #888 Share Posted January 30 Oh wow I loved reading this entire review, I was actually on your 15 day sailing on the Venezia, embarkation day rained so heavily and then when it come to getting off the and it was raining again I remember thinking not again! haha but it was not so bad on debarkation day. Thank you for sharing I cannot wait to read more cruise reviews from you and your talented wife, amazing photos! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Jamman54 Posted January 30 Author #889 Share Posted January 30 1 hour ago, Liverpoollovely said: Oh wow I loved reading this entire review, I was actually on your 15 day sailing on the Venezia, embarkation day rained so heavily and then when it come to getting off the and it was raining again I remember thinking not again! haha but it was not so bad on debarkation day. Thank you for sharing I cannot wait to read more cruise reviews from you and your talented wife, amazing photos! Cool! Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed the cruise as much as we did. Did you see yourself in any of our pictures? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liverpoollovely Posted January 30 #890 Share Posted January 30 45 minutes ago, Jamman54 said: Cool! Thanks for reading! I hope you enjoyed the cruise as much as we did. Did you see yourself in any of our pictures? I did not see my family or I on any photos however you were opposite from where I was sitting at the Boatyard. We loved the Venezia so much we are going on her again soon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Jamman54 Posted January 30 Author #891 Share Posted January 30 Our next adventure has begun! 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeBeCruisinMon Posted February 2 #892 Share Posted February 2 Cruising on the journeys cruise in a week and looking to book excursions… did the ship change time to match local island time on the cruise? Or were you on ship time the entire cruise? Thanks!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Jamman54 Posted February 2 Author #893 Share Posted February 2 4 hours ago, WeBeCruisinMon said: Cruising on the journeys cruise in a week and looking to book excursions… did the ship change time to match local island time on the cruise? Or were you on ship time the entire cruise? Thanks!! We remained on ships time the whole cruise. 😎 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeBeCruisinMon Posted February 2 #894 Share Posted February 2 4 hours ago, Jamman54 said: We remained on ships time the whole cruise. 😎 Thank you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdr69 Posted February 2 #895 Share Posted February 2 On 10/17/2023 at 6:19 PM, Jamman54 said: Our luggage had arrived so we both unpacked. I was going to relax in the cabin until sail away, but Patti was on the move to continue her picture tour! This is some of the Venetian artwork in our elevator lobby. The eyes behind the masks looked kind of creepy! Patti heads up to the Cloud 9 Spa and Fitness Center on Deck 12 Forward….. This is the Relaxation Room…… To be continued….. Ohhhhh so thats what a Gym looks like..... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdr69 Posted February 2 #896 Share Posted February 2 On 10/18/2023 at 4:54 PM, Jamman54 said: Bonsai Sushi is right across from the Amari Bar. We will be eating here later tonight….. The Fahrenheit 555 Steakhouse is also next to the Amari Bar, but we’ll get back to that later. Next up is Bonsai Tappanyaki…… Across the way is Piano Bar 88. The Piano Bar Player for both cruises is Misso….. The Quora String Trio performs in the Piazza San Marco….. To be continued….. These guys are excellent. They were on the Celebration TA and man could they play Queen. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Jamman54 Posted February 2 Author #897 Share Posted February 2 2 hours ago, kdr69 said: These guys are excellent. They were on the Celebration TA and man could they play Queen. Absolutely! 😃 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wpooh1968 Posted February 4 #898 Share Posted February 4 On 10/21/2023 at 3:30 PM, Jamman54 said: The Warehouse Arcade is also up here….. It’s strange looking up at the funnel and there is no whale tail….. Patti heads further aft and finds the Sports Court and some exercise equipment….. Patti heads down to Deck 11 where she finds plenty of seating above the Burano Pool area. On the starboard side is the smoking section….. To be continued….. Thank you, my husband asks me to scope out his smoking area before we board. We will be on 15FWD Portside for B2B 14 days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare Jamman54 Posted February 4 Author #899 Share Posted February 4 15 minutes ago, Wpooh1968 said: Thank you, my husband asks me to scope out his smoking area before we board. We will be on 15FWD Portside for B2B 14 days. No problem. Enjoy your cruises! 😃 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wpooh1968 Posted February 4 #900 Share Posted February 4 On 11/4/2023 at 4:14 PM, Jamman54 said: We are approaching the Cruise Terminal in Oranjestad, Aruba….. The Venezia is getting a water cannon salute….. We are sailing past the Church of Scientology’s Freewinds, which spends most of its time here in Aruba….. We are now docking at the Cruise Terminal here in Oranjestad, Aruba. Captain Crescenzo has gotten us here an hour early….. To be continued….. I've never actually seen people walking about the Scientology ship. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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